re:Dish Network Question

I have just added dish network and dropped my horrible AT&T digital cable.

The box that I received was the 301. Here is my question, are there any boxes available from dish network that offers 5.1 outputs so I can hook the system up to my reciever and get the digital sound? I don't need the HDTV part of it, I would just like to get the sound! With dish network can I add another box from another manufacture and just switch the cards???

The DP501 (with the Hard drive and Personal Video Recorder (PVR)) has a toslink digital output that you can get DD on. Of course, the broadcast stations have to broadcast in dolby digital which at this point it's mostly PPV or the premium channels. However you can still get regular digital PCM audio on any dishnetwork station. The 501 is a better version of the 301 with the PVR and a UHF remote, and the Digital output, of course.

Lyle: Thanks for clarifying the model number, I didn't mean to confuse.

Rhett: I don't have experience with switching receivers, since this is my first Dish system. A call to Dish would probably answer that question.

Like Lyle said, they are heavily discounting this model. When I was shopping for my system, I think I found a web store selling the 4900 receiver alone for something like $50.(?) I'm sorry, but I didn't bookmark the site since I was looking for a full system, not just a receiver.